The k. u. k. Hofmobilien- und Materialdepot was part of the economic machinery of the Habsburg Court and...

Vienna – Hofmobiliendepot

1793–1914

The Augarten in Vienna is all that remains of a seventeenth-century imperial pleasure garden that was once...

Vienna – Augarten

1648–1792

Vienna University was founded in 1365 by the Habsburg Rudolf IV as a rival to the university at Prague, which had...

Vienna University

1365

The Votivkirche was erected between 1855 and 1879 on the initiative of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian to designs by...

Vienna - the Votivkirche

1855–1879

The Prater was originally an imperial hunting reserve in the game-rich wetland forests near Vienna. The name derives...

Vienna - Prater

1766

Lying on the northern Adriatic, Trieste came under Habsburg rule in 1382 and after being made a free port in 1719...

Trieste

1850–1918

The Tödlein-Schrein (Shrine of Little Death) demonstrates the interest in human anatomy that grew during the...

Tobacco enemas were used to resuscitate victims of drowning right up into the eighteenth century. Tobacco had been...

The ‘Holy Grail’, an agate dish, was held to be the vessel that caught the blood of Christ on the Cross and was...

The ‘Holy Grail’

300–400

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